Archive for 'Cool N.C. Business'
Handmade Chocolate From Mountains to Sea
Whenever we head out west to Asheville, one of my favorite stops, in addition to the Early Girl Eatery and Malaprops Bookstore, is The Chocolate Fetish. Everything there is handmade, and everything is GOOD. Beyond good.
With Valentine’s Day around the corner (and we all know the real reason for V-Day is to eat chocolate), I thought [...]
4 Comments »NOFO at the Pig Will Cure What Ails You
All of this ridiculously cold (and WINDY) weather has me in a funk. So for a little cheer, I visited one of my favorite spots in Raleigh, NOFO at the Pig.
And then I figured, hey, I’ll stick around for lunch so I can post about the entire NOFO experience for indieNC. All in the name [...]
Hello Indie Greensboro!
Hello! We’re This Paper Ship, and we’ll be contributing to the IndieNC Blog all week! Our first post comes a little later in the day than we had originally intended, but the reason for it is a great one: we just finished moving our household, three cats, and studio into our new apartment in downtown [...]
Preview Party at the Cotton Room
Yesterday I got to attend a preview party at The Cotton Room! But before I tell you about The Cotton Room, a bit of Durham history might be in order…
In the 1880s Durham, NC became home to many tobacco companies and textile mills. What’s now called Golden Belt was originally The Golden Belt Manufacturing Company, [...]
LabourLove at Golden Belt
One of our charter contributors, Ellie has posted some great content on her personal blog about the new Labour Love gallery and Cotton Room at Golden Belt. Below the first of those two posts. Thanks, Ellie!
After The Cotton Room party, we headed downstairs to check out LabourLove, Durham’s newest gallery and retail space. John Pelphrey, [...]
Bake It Pretty, Amanda Krueger
Amanda Krueger runs the online shop Bake It Pretty from her Asheville home. Her boutique specializes in cute, vintage-inspired items to decorate food and baked goods, all of which you didn’t know you needed until now. Who can resist a forest-themed cupcake complete with tiny deer and mushrooms? Read on for our interview with Amanda [...]
Art-O-Mat
Art-O-Mat is a clever, portable gallery showcasing tiny pieces of artwork in vintage cigarette machines. Founded in 1997 in Winston-Salem by conceptual artist Clark Whittington, the machines were first used to display his own work at a solo art show but soon morphed into a unique, traveling, multi-artist gallery.
The goal of Art-O-Mat is to make [...]
